Differences that matter:Understanding case-mix and quality for prospective payment of home care

A suitable payment system is necessary to provide efficient, high-quality care at home. Therefore, in 2017, the Dutch Healthcare Authority initiated a project to develop a new home care payment system based on client profiles. This means a budget per client is determined beforehand, which suits a client’s expected care use. To do so, insight is needed on which client characteristics can predict the expected home care use. This was studied in this dissertation, by asking district nurses and by studying scientific literature. Among others, client characteristics related to a client’s functioning in daily life – for example if a client is independent in showering or using medication – were considered as relevant predictors of home care use. Subsequently, with this knowledge the Case-Mix Short Form was developed, tested and implemented, together with district nurses, home care providers and healthcare insurers, to collect data on relevant predictive client characteristics in a standardized manner. Finally, this dissertation provides an exploration of suitable outcomes for quality measurement in home care

Beyond New Media Hype: Why Today’s Media Policy Debates Need Teletext Research

Teletext is rarely discussed by media scholars, yet it remains widely popular among audiences and has been adapted in various ways to the new online, mobile environment. Hilde Van Den Bulck of the University of Antwerp and Hallvard Moe of the University of Bergen argue that investigating the history of this often forgotten medium provides an important context for understanding new media policy today and call for contributions to Teletext research

Bedtime, shuteye time and electronic media: sleep displacement is a two‐step process

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Casual Sexual Scripts on the Screen

While existing content analyses have provided insightful information in terms of contextual factors and frequency of sexual behaviors, not much is known about the relational context in which sexual depictions generally occur. The current study addresses this void by employing content analytic methods to measure the frequency and context o

Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony: Evidence From the US and Flanders

This article argues that increased insight into the global characteristics of the post-Cold War era provides journalism scholars with alternative interpretative lenses to engage in comparative analysis of media system development in the West. We adopt the sociohistorical approach pursued by Hallin and Mancini (2004) in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems to embark on an examination of the dialectic relationship between global neoliberal hegemony, the transformation of media markets, and the emergence of a new journalistic consciousness (doxa). This examination concerns a comparative analysis of developments in a selection of Flemish and American legacy newspapers between 1980 and today, based on a data set consisting of 36 in-depth semi-structured interviews with high agency individuals (executive editors, managing editors, senior journalists, and publishers). The goal of the article is to establish the lens of global neoliberal hegemony as a viable alternative framework to the regional lens of the media systems typology for engaging in comparative analysis of developments in media structures and journalistic practice